Inkstand



n srr VALENTINE FOGERTY, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSAGHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO FRANCIS HOUGHTON, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

INKSTAN D.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,395, dated August 31, 1858.

To all whom 't may concm:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE FOGERTY, of Cambridgeport, in the County of MiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Inkstand; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully de scribed and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which Fgure l denotes a side elevation, Fig. 2, a top view and Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of it.

The nature or main feature of my invention consists in a combination of a common ink reservoir or vessel and an auxiliary pan or dipper applied to operate therewith as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawings, A denotes a conmon ink stand or reservoir, having a fiat cover or top, B, constructed with an opening or mouth ai. This cover may be provided with an auXiliary capor cover I), which may be hinged to the cover B, and arranged thereon in such manner as to be capable of being turned down over and so as to cover the mouth a.

W'ithin the interior or chamber of the inkstand, A, I place a small dipper or pan, C, supported by a forked lever, D, whose fulcrum is a staple, al, or any other equivalent device extended down from the cover, B. The upper arm, e, of the said lever I construct as a stifi spring and form the same and eXtend it up through a hole f, made through the cover B, as shown in the drawings. The upper arm of the lever should be jointed to the cap, b, or so connected with it as to be capable of serving as a spring to hold the said cap, b, up in a vertical position, While the dipper is close up to the mouth of the inkstand. XVhcn the cap, dipper, and the cover are so connected, a depression or turning down of the cap toward and so as to cover the mouth, a, will cause the vessel or dipper, C, to descend into the liquid contents of the reservoir, where it may be supplied with nk. On the cup being raised ofi the mouth and up and into a vertical position the dipper filled or containing ink will be elevated up to the mouth a. In general, the dipper should be about one half an inch in depth in order that when a pen may be plunged into it and down to its bottom such pen may receive the greatest amount of ink which it may be proper for it to take up without danger of the nk dropping from it.

Instead of attaching the litter or lever of the dipper to the cap of the mouth, it may have applied to it, or to it and the cover, any other suitable means of keeping it or holding it up when the dipper is raised out of the ink or up to the mouth of the inkstand.

The above described application of the dipper to the cap by means of a lever hinged to the cover as described constitutes a convenient and useful method of supporting the dipper and of enabling it to be operated as described.

The advantages of my invention will be apparent to most persons.

I claiml. In combination with an inkstand or ink reservoir, and its mouth, a dipper or vessel so applied within the said reservoir as to be capable of being within it and toward and away from the said mouth substantially in manner and for the purpose of taking up ink or a liquid from the reservoir as specified.

2. I also claim the application of the dipper to the movable cap of the mouth of the reservoir so as to be operated by the said cap in manner substantally as herenbefore eXplained.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

VALENTINE FOGERTY.

'witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

